Jakob Damgaard

Curriculum Vitae

Personal information  

31.08.1970: Born in Copenhagen , Denmark  

06.1989: Graduated from highschool (Høje-Taastrup Amtsgymnasium)  

01.09.1989-Immatriculated at University of Copenhagen  

22.09.1995: Graduated as M.Sc. from Entomological Department, Zoological Museum  

25.09.1995-31.12.1995: Consultant worker for BIOMEDIA in Frederiksborg County  

01.07.1996 – 30.06.99: Ph.d-student at Zoological Museum and Zoological Institute, University of Copenhagen  

01.01.01 – 31.12.02: Post doctoral fellowship at the Zoological Institute, University of Copenhagen founded by the Carlsberg Foundation  

01.03.03 – 31.8.03: Research associate at the Zoological Museum , University of Copenhagen  

01.09.03 – Postdoctoral fellowship at the Biological Institute, University of Copenhagen founded by the Villum Kann Rasmussen Foundation  

Research experience from international institutes   

University of California at Berkeley , California , U.S.A. (10/1-19/6 1998). Contact person Dr. Felix A.H. Sperling  

Texas A&M at College Station , Texas , U.S.A. (29/10-18/12 2000). Contact person Dr. Anthony I. Cognato   

Supervision of M.Sc. projects  

Olivier Falk-Rønne: Arthropodernes Systematik – med særlig fokus på molekylære data og Hexapoda/Crustacea-relationer (with Henrik Glenner and Bo Vest Pedersen, finished 2003)  

Martin Bay Hebsgaard: Phylogeny of Water Bugs (Nepomorpha) (with Nils Møller Andersen and Bo Vest Pedersen, finished 2003)  

Marie Djernæs Olsen: Molecular Phylogeny of Blattaria (cockroaches) with mapping of sexually selected characters (with Niels Peder Kristensen and Klaus-Dieter Klass)

Supervision of other projects  

Marie Djernæs Olsen: Exon-intron structure and sequenced regions in EF-1alpha (finished 2004).

 Last update: 10 december 2004